"Sport can create hope, where once there..." - Quote by Nelson Mandela

“I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.”

“I don't think there is much history can say about me. I just want to be remembered as part of that collective.”

“Blaming things on the past does not make them better.”

“My definition of a sport is that it's a physical activity that involves competition. Since bodybuilders certainly train and then compete, we are certainly a sport.”

“I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. I was intrigued by how one moved one's body to protect oneself, how one used a strategy both to attack and retreat, how one paced oneself over a match.”

“Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers.”

“But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”

“Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We have an opportunity to make America a better nation.”

“Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.”